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Brooklyn Chelsea, or

Chelsea Brooklyn

With your first child being named Hudson Bronx this is an obvious one for me!

Edit: if you think it's a dumb or bad idea, that's a valid opinion. "But that would be a disadvantage for me!" Okay. Again, I'm not saying this is something they *should* do, just that the premise is interesting. Thanks for reading.

Edit 2: "f**k no" and "this is a dumb idea" are valid responses. Sending me messages saying "delete this post now or I'll make you quit the game by putting constant bounties/hosping you" isn't. Thanks.

Premise: The higher your net worth, the more your battle stats are reduced.

Why: It'd be fun for "untouchable" citizens to feel what's it like to be one of us, just for a day. Also a little "revolutionish" for players to make a lot of $$$/take from the rich.

How: Battle stats reduced by some % based on your net worth - up to x%, (folks could come up with a good formula I'm sure)

Implementation: of course, the richers would hosp out or hide all their assets for this day. How to circumvent?

All of their assets are at stake. Stocks, investments, etc. The more liquid cash they keep in their wallet, the less likely they lose investments.

Higher % of money lost in mug.

Seems like the goal of the promos is to encourage user activity, I think something like this would do the trick, even for just a day.

Thoughts?

Edit: all attacks being stealthed to prevent retaliation would be a good addition

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In what way do you think it "looks like" Biden is screwing up "even worse"?

Brooklyn Chelsea, or

Chelsea Brooklyn

With your first child being named Hudson Bronx this is an obvious one for me!

You are responding to my post in a far too narrow sense.

You seem to think this idea is all about "I want this because I think it benefits me"

That's not the case. The goal of any holiday, I think, is to encourage player activity and engagement is it not?

If my idea is bad, then my idea is bad. I can take criticism, it's fine.

But the whole "oh you just wanna do this so you can benefit" is a lazy argument.

This is a very well thought out response. I appreciate the thought. I thought it'd be a fun idea to promote activity and flip the community for a day. Fair to say a lot of folks find that to be unfair.

I appreciate you responding to my idea with valid points, and not simply "I don't like it because it doesn't benefit me" and not sending me threatening messages haha

I don't want to make their efforts useless.

50% of a billion is better than 20% of 500,000.

I also would limit it to a day.

However, you're absolutely right that this game is designed for both casual and intense players, and rewarding casual players could be unfair.

Thanks for the response.

Thank you for looking into the numbers. I suppose untouchable players will always be untouchable.

I think the point you made, that this would make wealthier players the *only* targets, is the part of this idea that is bad.

In the abstract sense, allowing a player who has played the game for one year have a chance against one who has played it for three years is a pretty cool idea, I think. Not that the higher NW player automatically loses, which is how some people interpreted it.

The challenge is, there's no benefit for the higher NW player to go after lower NW players, which makes it a bad challenge.

Thank you for the well thought out response. Again, I'm not saying this is something we *should* do, it was just a thought.

Also a valid point.

Even a high stat player who had their stats reduced by 50% still wouldn't be a challenge for an average player.

Maybe the 0.001% chance of a billion dollar mug fools enough players for the high stat players to rack up defends haha

Thank you. Sorry for posting in wrong forum, even if it's a shitty suggestion haha

I hoped that it would generate at least some thought beyond "how would this impact me personally"

I thought wrong it seems

See, this is a good point. And a fair one. This is the kind of thoughts I was hoping to elicit.

But everyone else commenting seems to be basically saying "but this event would be bad for me personally so I don't like it"

Well that's kind of what happens in a revolution haha. Again, just a thought I found interesting.

Again, not saying it's something we *should* do, just that the premise was interesting enough for me to throw it out there.

"Let's handicap a portion of the playerbase...for no reason other than the fact that I feel like I deserve to take a chunk of their cash"

Or, alternatively:

"Let's make a portion of our player base untouchable for no reason other than they've played the game longer"

Well, by definition the players with the highest net worth are the most active players. You don't want to lose them, for sure. Would they revolt because of one day where they're at a relative disadvantage? Or would players of average-activity drastically increase their activity?

I'm not saying we should do it because "I deserve their money" (or even that we *should* do it at all, necessarily) but that it'd be a fun way to "even the playing field" so to speak.

If players who are very active with a high net worth get upset about it, that kind of fits the theme ?

Edit: if you think it's a dumb or bad idea, that's a valid opinion. "But that would be a disadvantage for me!" Okay. Again, I'm not saying this is something they *should* do, just that the premise is interesting. Thanks for reading.

Edit 2: "f**k no" and "this is a dumb idea" are valid responses. Sending me messages saying "delete this post now or I'll make you quit the game by putting constant bounties/hosping you" isn't. Thanks.

Premise: The higher your net worth, the more your battle stats are reduced.

Why: It'd be fun for "untouchable" citizens to feel what's it like to be one of us, just for a day. Also a little "revolutionish" for players to make a lot of $$$/take from the rich.

How: Battle stats reduced by some % based on your net worth - up to x%, (folks could come up with a good formula I'm sure)

Implementation: of course, the richers would hosp out or hide all their assets for this day. How to circumvent?

All of their assets are at stake. Stocks, investments, etc. The more liquid cash they keep in their wallet, the less likely they lose investments.

Higher % of money lost in mug.

Seems like the goal of the promos is to encourage user activity, I think something like this would do the trick, even for just a day.

Thoughts?

Edit: all attacks being stealthed to prevent retaliation would be a good addition